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London Book Fair - Managing and adapting to content delivery - April 2014

Academic publishers today strive to keep pace with a rapid evolution in how readers discover and evaluate scholarly content. Indexing routines change regularly for open-web search engines, like Google. New researcher tools, like Mendeley and ReadCube, present new challenges in ensuring scholarly material is findable via all the possible channels used by students, authors, practitioners, and other consumers. Standards organizations, who govern routines for information delivery and metadata exchanges, are struggling to keep up with the pace of this change.

Presentations were given by the following:

Ashley Crowson, PhD Scholar, King’s College London
- analysis of the research process, the challenges that scholars face in discoverability and how they go about researching and finding materials.

14.
81%
of library
directors
say yes.
Is your indexed discovery service the default search from your library
website? (Includes only respondents at institutions that have implemented
discovery services.)

15.
"To what extent do you think that your index-based discovery service has
made your users' discovery experience better or worse in each of the following
areas?" (Includes only respondents at institutions that have implemented
discovery services.)

16.
"It is strategically important that my library be seen by its users as the first
place they go to discover scholarly content." Percentage of respondents who
strongly agreed, over time.

17.
"My library is always the best place for researchers at my institution to start
their search for scholarly information." Percentage of respondents who strongly
agreed.